Monday, February 27, 2023 1pm to 2pm
Speaker: Daniel Stern, University of Chicago
Title: Existence theory for harmonic maps and connections to spectral geometry
Abstract: I’ll discuss recent progress on the existence theory for harmonic maps, in particular the existence of harmonic maps of-optimal regularity from manifolds of dimension n>2 to every non-aspherical closed manifold containing no stable minimal two-spheres. As an application, we’ll see that every manifold carries a canonical family of sphere-valued harmonic maps, which (in dimension<6) stabilize at a solution of a spectral isoperimetric problem generalizing the conformal maximization of Laplace eigenvalues on surfaces. Based on joint work with Mikhail Karpukhin.
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